The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 111

'My mistress has given me this yarn to weave into a piece of cloth, which must be finished by sunset, and I have not even begun yet, for the yarn breaks whenever I touch it.'

Who acts: I, yarn · What happens: give, weave, finish, not begin, break, touch · To what, where: mistress, me, piece, cloth

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, yarn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 given	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mistress	nmod:poss
3	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 given	aux
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 given	iobj
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 yarn	det
8	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 weave	mark
10	weave	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 yarn	acl
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 piece	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 piece	det
13	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 weave	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 cloth	case
15	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 piece	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 finished	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 finished	nsubj:pass
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 finished	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 finished	aux:pass
20	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 piece	acl
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 sunset	case
22	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 finished	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 begun	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 begun	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 begun	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 begun	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 begun	advmod
28	even	even	ADV	_	29 begun	advmod
29	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 given	parataxis
30	yet	yet	ADV	_	29 begun	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 breaks	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 breaks	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 yarn	det
34	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 breaks	nsubj
35	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 begun	conj
36	whenever	whenever	SCONJ	_	38 touch	mark
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 touch	nsubj
38	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 breaks	ccomp
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 touch	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 given	punct
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	give	present · perfect · passive		My mistress	me			tree rules
2	weave	to-infinitive				a piece of cloth		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into piece=Destination
3	finish	must · passive		a piece of cloth			sunset	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
4	not begin	present · perfect	I				yet	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	break	present	the yarn					tree rules
6	touch	present	I	cloth				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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